Robbie Williams plans to open "a University of Entertainment"

Robbie, 51, told the Heretics podcast: "I want to open a University of Entertainment. I did notice nobody else is doing it."

Robbie explained that the idea was partially inspired by his own life experiences.

He said: "I grew up as a vaudevillian. That's what I am. I am cabaret.

"I spent all of my youth watching my dad do cabaret and watching all of the acts that he would bring off and on stage - and how talented and hard-working they were, and how genuinely funny the funny acts were, and how genuinely amazing the vocalists were."

Robbie - who first found fame as a member of Take That - also reflected on his own route to solo stardom.

The singer said: "I arrived in 1995, after Take That, I want to be Oasis. I want to be Radiohead. Then, when I opened my mouth and my mind, I came out instead and I'm not cool. And you go, 'OK, so what am I? Oh, I'm all of these people that I loved - Tommy Cooper, The Two Ronnies and Morecambe and Wise.

"The way they made me feel is how I want to make people feel."

Meanwhile, Robbie previously insisted that he doesn't want to be "constantly" reminded of his own success.

The pop star has given away all of the awards that he's won during his career, and Robbie admitted that he's generally very cynical about awards ceremonies in the music industry.

Speaking to Us Weekly, Robbie explained: "I've given all of my awards away for two reasons: I don't want my success to be constantly reaffirmed every day as something that happened in the past, and I also retain great cynicism when it comes to awards and awards ceremonies.

"You don't get to meet the people that nominate you and figure out whether you want them to tell you if you are good or not. Let me also say I'm very grateful to be invited to the party and I'm a very sensitive person that if you don't tell me I exist, then I don't exist.

"So it's a very interesting conundrum in the industry that I find myself in."